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Yup. Rewards are not yours until they’ve paid out.

Abusive downvoting is a thing, though. But not in this case. The author is still doing quite well for herself. These selfies are worth clearly more than zero although not quite the $20. Abusive downvoting is what a certain TA "expert" used to do when someone downvoted his vastly over-rewarded placeholder posts. Thank goodness, while he was included in the airdrop (as far as I know), he's been focusing on milking STEEM instead. In the worst case, the targets of his automated downvotes used to be unable to earn any author rewards whatsoever for weeks or months on end.